Natural defense for superbugs

Recently I read a research paper on vitamin B3 and how it has been found to effectively destroy superbugs that are immune to, and have been caused by the over dependence on, antibiotics. In the research paper, vitamin B3 was referred to as niacin, nicotinic acid and nicotinamide.

The research was done on animals and human blood samples. The researchers stated that high doses, clinical or therapeutic, of B3 increased immune cells ability to kill staph infections by up to 1,000 times. They said we shouldn't do this at home and should undertake the protocol only under the supervision of a qualified health care provider.

A quick look at human nature. When someone tells us not to experiment, after telling us how well something works, we're bound to try it. When this inevitably happens we need all the information, which can help prevent problems that may arise when we only have pieces of the whole picture.

The following is for information purposes only, information for the reader to do with as they see fit.

I know people who are taking therapeutic (high) doses of B3 for various reasons and I know of no one who has had an adverse reaction IF they include other B vitamins in their regimen.

Our body, through complex chemical reactions, changes B vitamins into coenzymes that are crucial for growth, energy, metabolism and development.

When any B vitamin is taken alone, it leaches other B vitamins from the body.

Different B vitamins are responsible for different areas of health.

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If any B vitamin, or vitamins, are leached from the body the aspect of health that vitamin is involved with will suffer.

If you take niacin, you'll likely experience a "niacin flush." Niacinamide accomplishes almost the same effects as niacin without the flush. One friend told me some years ago that she likes the flushed feeling. Personally I find the reddened, itchy skin irritating.

If we eat a well balanced diet, and stay away from places where superbugs hang out, like hospitals, clinics and nursing homes, high dose clinical supplementation may not be necessary. Prevention beats intervention.

Vitamin B3 is the 2nd non-drug treatment that appears to do what drugs cannot. The other is colloidal silver. For thousands of years, silver has been nature's original antibiotic. It's also the best. Bacteria can't develop resistance to silver and it even controls MRSA.

Here's another piece of superbug killing information. Superbugs can not live on copper surfaces but can on stainless steel. Some cutting edge health facilities are replacing stainless surfaces with copper for that reason.

There are eight different B vitamins, I'll cover them in next week's article and other health benefits of niacinamide in the future.

Larry R. Miller has been a freelance writer, worldwide health and fitness information source since 1982.

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